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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ireland In The New Century, by Horace Plunkett This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Ireland In The New Century Author: Horace Plunkett Release Date: December 13, 2004 [EBook #14342] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRELAND IN THE NEW CENTURY *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Susan Skinner and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. IRELAND IN THE NEW CENTURY BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR HORACE PLUNKETT, K.C.V.O., F.R.S. LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1904 _Printed by_ BROWNE AND NOLAN, LTD., _Dublin_ TO THE MEMORY OF W.E.H. LECKY, I DEDICATE ALL IN THIS BOOK THAT IS WORTHY OF THE FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH HE HONOURED ME, AND OF THE COUNSEL WHICH HE GAVE ME FOR MY GUIDANCE IN IRISH PUBLIC LIFE. PREFACE Those who have known Ireland for the last dozen years cannot have failed to notice the advent of a wholly new spirit, clearly based upon constructive thought, and expressing itself in a wide range of fresh practical activities. The movement for the organisation of agriculture and rural credit on co-operative lines, efforts of various kinds to revive old or initiate new industries, and, lastly, the creation of a department of Government to foster all that was healthy in the voluntary effort of the people to build up the economic side of their life, are each interesting in themselves. When taken together, and in conjunction with the literary and artistic movements, and viewed in their relation to history, politics, religion, education, and the other past and present influences operating upon the Irish mind and character, these movements appear to me to be worthy of the most thoughtful consideration by all who are responsible for, or desire the well-being of the Irish people. I should not, however, in days when my whole time and energies belong to the public service, have undertaken the task of writing a book on a subject so complex and apparently so inseparable from heated controversy, were I not convinced that the expression of certain thoughts which have come to me from practical contact with Irish problems, was the best contribut
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